Everyday Office Jargon · Intern level

"Target market"

"Target market" means the specific group of customers a product or service is designed and marketed toward.

Say this instead: core audience

How "Target market" shows up at work

A legitimate term that shows up in every pitch deck, usually in a slide that makes the addressable audience sound either enormous or pleasingly specific depending on what the company needs investors to believe that day.

Buzzword

Our target market is mid-size companies between 50 and 500 employees in regulated industries.

Plain English

Our core audience is mid-size companies between 50 and 500 employees in regulated industries.

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